Chapter 196 It's All My Fault

The sun was setting over the eastern Alps.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Jiang Xiao and Catherine floated over 3,000 meters in the air, searching in all directions.

The mountains in front of them were covered with green grass, dotted with white wildflowers. The distant mountains were covered with white snow. The visible alternation of winter and summer was truly a spectacle.

Jiang Xiao held the map and skipped the third-to-last stop, the place where Akesuo's deceased husband once lived. He also skipped the second-to-last stop and went directly to the final destination - the Alps, as Akesuo had instructed.

Following the map, he searched for possible wooden houses, manors, or other residential buildings.

Unfortunately, it was a primitive landscape with green hills and grass, without any traces of human habitation.

Jiang Xiao, draped in a cloak, slowly landed on a patch of grass and said, "Akesuo once said that this map is decades old. Maybe that Star Warrior codenamed Gaia no longer lives here."

Catherine remained silent, not responding.

"Sigh..." Jiang Xiao squatted down and picked up a pale yellow wildflower from the ground. "In this case, Sparta, Troy, and Akesuo are really unlucky. We found them according to the map.

They... must have stayed in the same place for 50 or 60 years, afraid to move."

Catherine stood behind Jiang Xiao, pursing her lips, her face a little dazed.

It seemed that she was thinking of herself now. Although she seemed free, in reality, she was just a caged bird.

This time, under Hopkins' orders, she accompanied Jiang Xiao everywhere, but she was not allowed to leave Jiang Xiao's side for even a moment. Before that, she had also been required to live in a seaside cottage in the Mediterranean, not daring to leave for even half a step.

"Sigh..." Jiang Xiao sighed softly, twisting the pale yellow petals with his fingers, and said softly, "Although this is a spatial star technique, it is a real planet.

It's such a big world, but you can't go anywhere. You can only live in the marked places... Akesuo is better off, at least she has someone to accompany her..."

Halfway through his words, Jiang Xiao and Catherine suddenly raised their heads and looked at the distant snow mountain.

The sun had not yet set, and a patch of orange-red light was still shining on the distant snow mountain.

Normally, Jiang Xiao's perception would not be as good as Catherine's, but why could they raise their heads together?

Because... the movement on the opposite side was too big...

"Rumble..."

As if the earth was trembling slightly, there was a faint trend of an avalanche on the distant snow mountain!

A large amount of white snow rolled down from the peaks, stirring up a sky full of snow mist.

Jiang Xiao picked up the flowers in his hand and slowly stood up. Catherine also looked up at the distant mountain peaks on the opposite side.

Gradually, as the snow mist dissipated, Jiang Xiao's heart trembled violently!

He saw a pair of eyes...

A pair of huge, bright eyes.

And the earth's trembling and avalanche just now were only because the other party had opened their eyes...

How big was she?

Was this still within the scope of human Star Warriors?

This... this... her main body was one of the peaks in the Alps, right?

In the majestic mountain peaks, two huge eyes seemed to be able to speak. She silently looked at Jiang Xiao, and also at Catherine.

Catherine's body trembled slightly. This was completely beyond her expectations. Catherine subconsciously moved her feet, half of her body hiding behind Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao, on the other hand, directly teleported, bringing Catherine to the front of those huge eyes.

In the reflection of the afterglow of the setting sun, her pair of brown pupils emitted a strange light, captivating people's hearts.

These didn't look like the eyes of an elderly person. They were so clear and beautiful.

In just this moment, Jiang Xiao felt his own insignificance.

"Here~" Jiang Xiao picked up the flowers in his hand and handed them to a huge eye.

The pair of bright eyes blinked...

"Rumble..." Another burst of boulders rolled down from the mountain, or rather, from her eyelids.

The earth trembled slightly. Jiang Xiao floated in the air and looked down. He saw a sound of stones breaking coming from this magnificent mountain. Slowly, a hand stretched out from the mountain.

"Gudong." Jiang Xiao's Adam's apple wriggled for a while. He watched the giant palm slowly lift up and understood what the other party meant.

Jiang Xiao floated down and landed in her palm, or rather, on the side of her palm lines...

Her palm was very strange. It was not a pure flesh and blood body. At least 70% of her skin was earth, made up of soil, stones, and grass.

So this scene was even more bizarre!

It would be fine if she was a pure stone person, but the key was that about 30% of her skin and flesh was consistent with that of normal humans.

In this huge palm, there were low trees, green grass, and rocks, just like a normal wilderness environment.

And on her human skin, the lines in her palm were clearly visible.

Jiang Xiao thought for a while and slowly inserted the small flower he was holding into the soft grass...

The next moment, the grass under Jiang Xiao's feet suddenly bloomed with pale yellow flowers, connecting into a piece and turning into a sea of flowers... It was breathtakingly beautiful.

Jiang Xiao looked up blankly and saw a pair of beautiful eyes covering the sky and the sun, as if they occupied Jiang Xiao's entire world.

Bright, clean, pure, and even... Jiang Xiao felt the kindness and gentleness of a mother.

Jiang Xiao smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Don't look at me like that. I'm not here to be someone else's son."

On the ground, a pile of gravel swept open and pieced together a sentence in English: "I haven't seen strangers in a long time."

Jiang Xiao tried to look up and looked at one of the other party's eyes, and said, "You didn't know I was coming?"

The pair of beautiful eyes silently looked at Jiang Xiao, without responding.

Jiang Xiao smacked his lips and gestured to the map in his hand, saying, "Hopkins gave me a map and asked me to visit the old gods.

To be honest, your existence has subverted my understanding of this world.

It seems that Akesuo was right, your code name is Gaia, right?"

At this moment, in front of Jiang Xiao, piles of gravel continued to gather together and quickly pieced together. A strong wave of star power even forced Jiang Xiao and Catherine back several steps.

Jiang Xiao couldn't help but put one hand in front of his eyes, blocking the terrifying star power.

A few seconds later, he saw a perfect stone statue through his fingers.

This was an ordinary-looking woman. Her facial features were not outstanding. Because it was made of stone, the pair of lively eyes did not have any brilliance.

The stone statue spoke. The voice was like the sound of stones rubbing and colliding, which made people feel very uncomfortable, "Hopkins."

"Yes, Hopkins threw me in here, gave me a map, and asked me to visit the old gods," Jiang Xiao responded.

The stone statue goddess looked at Jiang Xiao and said, "Who are you?"

Jiang Xiao said, "Jiang Xiaopi, Chinese."

"No, what I mean is..." The stone statue looked at Jiang Xiao silently and said, "Who are you to Hopkins?"

Jiang Xiao shrugged his shoulders and said, "An enemy."

He was just trying to please her. After all, Akesuo said that Gaia and Hopkins were mortal enemies.

The stone statue goddess was slightly surprised, but her face was a stone sculpture, so there was no change. She just looked at Catherine and said, "Who are you?"

Catherine respectfully lowered her head, not daring to tell any lies, and said, "Madam, hello, I am Hopkins' servant."

The goddess statue: "Why are you here?"

Catherine's body tensed up, feeling an unprecedented pressure. Her voice trembled slightly: "The prophet asked me to accompany the young man beside me to visit the gods."

The next moment, a pile of gravel swept open!

"No, no... ah..." In just two seconds, Catherine's miserable screams disappeared without a trace!

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded!

When he turned his head to look at Catherine, her body had been surrounded by a pile of gravel, spinning rapidly.

The extremely fast-spinning gravel vortex tore apart Catherine's flesh and blood, the speed was outrageous, and the methods were terrifying!

In just two seconds, the gravel vortex scattered on the ground, smeared with bright red blood, but Jiang Xiao couldn't even find the bone residue!

Catherine... was dead!

Just like that, she died!

A Star Warrior at the peak of the Starry Sky realm didn't even have a chance to resist, and even the screams and pleas for mercy only lasted for less than 2 seconds...

The stone statue goddess looked at Jiang Xiao and said, "His people shouldn't appear in front of me."

Jiang Xiao looked at the goddess statue blankly. For a moment, he was at a loss.

He raised his head and looked at the huge eyes covering the sky above him. At this moment, he could no longer find the previous kindness and gentleness. What was left was only endless hatred.

"You..." The gravel under the goddess statue rolled and slowly came to Jiang Xiao's front. She lowered her head and looked at Jiang Xiao, "What qualifications do you have to be his enemy?"

Jiang Xiao smacked his lips, looked at the blood-stained gravel at his feet, and kicked it casually, saying, "Um... that's a problem."

"Gaia!" A roar came from the distant sky.

"Huh?" Jiang Xiao turned his head and saw a tall man wearing tattered clothes.

That outfit looked like a fisherman?

The stone statue goddess once again made a strange voice from the rubbing of stones, which was very dignified: "Leave my land within 3 seconds."

"His next stop should have been me! Not you!" The fisherman in the sky was surrounded by a cloud of water droplets and arrived above the palm in the blink of an eye.

He stood in the air, lowered his head and looked at Jiang Xiao, saying, "He is my only bargaining chip to regain my freedom!"

Gaia seemed to be interested and asked, "Why?"

Jiang Xiao looked up at the fisherman and explained, "Because Hopkins promised them that if they killed me, he would give them freedom.

Hopkins has looked for all the former team members, it seems that he has not looked for you."

"Oh?" In the sky, the pair of huge eyes brightened a little, and behind them, the voice of the goddess statue came, "You have seen many of my teammates."

"Yes." Jiang Xiao nodded and said, "Sparta is very irritable, Troy is very insidious.

Akesuo is very gentle. She misses her deceased husband and doesn't want freedom. She doesn't want to take my life, so I spared her life."

The goddess statue said, "You mean... Sparta and Troy are dead."

Jiang Xiao: "Yes."

Goddess statue: "You killed them."

Jiang Xiao: "I killed them."

For a moment, the surroundings were silent, and the atmosphere was terribly depressing.

In the high altitude, the fisherman looked at the eyes embedded in the magnificent mountain and shouted, "He is mine, it's my turn!"

On the palm, the stone statue goddess said, "Leave here."

The fisherman clenched his fists, and the water droplets around his body swayed. His face changed, and his attitude... suddenly became gentle.

From the original anger to the current low-pitched plea: "Gaia, for the sake of our decades of friendship, don't do this. He is my only bargaining chip to gain freedom."

The goddess statue spoke again: "For the last time, leave here."

The fisherman's face changed again, becoming angry again: "Are you really not thinking about old feelings? You must remember that before you truly became a god, I saved your life countless times!"

Rumble...

Gaia's palm suddenly vibrated, and countless gravel slowly floated up. The low trees were torn apart one after another under the strong star power...

The fisherman's expression changed drastically, and his figure retreated rapidly. Obviously, he didn't dare to fight Gaia head-on.

The fisherman gritted his teeth fiercely, flying backwards while looking at Jiang Xiao with extremely sinister eyes, squeezing out a sentence from between his teeth: "Don't leave this Alps, remember my advice to you, you better never leave here."

"Hey!" Jiang Xiao suddenly spoke and stopped the fisherman, "What's your name?"

The fisherman's figure paused, "Poseidon."

"The Sea God? That's quite a name..." Saying that, Jiang Xiao tilted his head and looked at Poseidon, saying, "You know, even if you kill me, the freedom you fantasize about is impossible to achieve. Maybe you should think about other ways out."

"Heh." Poseidon smiled disdainfully, looked at Jiang Xiao with a mocking face, and turned around to leave.

"Hey!" Jiang Xiao spoke and stopped the fisherman again.

This time, Jiang Xiao turned around and looked up at the huge eyes embedded in the mountain.

Jiang Xiao said, "You asked me just now, what qualifications do I have to be Hopkins' enemy?"

In the magnificent mountain peaks, the pair of eyes lowered and quietly looked at Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao turned around and looked at the fisherman standing in the air and said, "You want to kill me and use my life to exchange for your freedom?"

Poseidon stared at Jiang Xiao without responding.

Jiang Xiao hooked his fingers at the fisherman: "Come on, I'll satisfy you."

Gaia's eyes widened slightly, and the fisherman was overjoyed. He was about to move, but he stopped abruptly. He looked up and also looked at the pair of eyes in the mountain.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...

In that pair of eyes, there was no meaning of rejection.

On the contrary, Gaia's palm... that is, the land under Jiang Xiao's feet, vibrated again.

In the far distance, the huge fingers slowly flattened, as if to provide a wider fighting field for the two.

But in fact... the area of the palm was already enough.

Jiang Xiao stood on Gaia's palm, just like an ant landing on a human's palm.

Her shallow palm lines were like deep trenches for Jiang Xiao.

Poseidon cautiously approached. After confirming that Gaia allowed the battle to take place, he steadily landed on her palm.

A star map lit up on Jiang Xiao's chest. Slowly, he drew a blood-red giant blade from his chest: "I once gave you a chance."

Poseidon supported the brim of his fisherman's hat with his fingers and said, "Are these your last words?"

Jiang Xiao grinned, and the flower blade in his hand was slowly covered with cracked patterns of scorched earth, pointing to Poseidon from afar: "If that's the case, then let's fight."

Poseidon was surrounded by water droplets. He said in a sinister voice, "Remember, you asked for all of this!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xiao smiled.

You're right, this is all my fault.